My summer meal plan for next week!

I used to be SO efficient with meal planning, especially before I had Edie. Each week I’d print out a meal planner and pin it up in the kitchen so that I could see exactly what I had planned to cook… then I slowly stopped doing that.

Meal planning properly can really help to cut back the weekly spend and food wastage so I am trying really hard to get back to it. I don’t think it’s especially tough during summer so I thought I’d share with you our meal plan for the next week.

Saturday – Adult’s have a take out but the boys will be having fish parcels

Sunday – Dare I attempt a Sunday Dinner? I haven’t had one for ages so I think the answer is yes!! Our’s usually has roasted chicken (or sometimes beef), mashed potatoes, mashed carrot and swede, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, yorkshire puddings (hello, we’re in yorkshire – plain rude not to) and red cabbage.

So working out my meal cost for the week (I do the bulk of my shopping at Aldi and then grab extras/luxuries from Asda) I will spend roughly £32.50 on meals (including using things like the ham for flan for sandwiches/lunch boxes and adding in breakfast cereal etc), £30-35 on luxuries/snacks (chocolate/crisps/wine..) and £25 on a takeout. That makes our (max) spend for the week £90 for a family of 6 for food… how does that compare to you, do you think that’s reasonable?

What is on your meal planner next week or do you wing it?

H x

P.s – I’m not including the cleaning or laundry products in this and we are by no means thrifty on those or food, but I do think that by planning we can save quite a bit.

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Fab meal plan H! I love the sound of slow cooking the chicken in fajita spices rather than just whacking it in the frying pan. I bet it makes it extra tasty – I will give it a try! Thanks for sharing with us on #fortheloveofBLOG

I really enjoy meal planning. I usually start on Fridays and plan for meals for the week ahead. I don’t put days against the recipes as usually like to choose what I want to cook from the menu the day before. Sunday roast is a must on Sunday’s :-). Chicken is my favourite.

Our go to weekly meals are not too dissimilar to yours but in addition is definitely chilli con carne, chicken stroganoff, if I have time I love to do lasagne but I find it’s quite a big job as I am a from scratch kind of lasagne maker haha!!! We have painted one of our kitchen walls with chalkboard paint to do our meal plan on the wall every week ? #fortheloveofBLOG xx

Your meals sounds lovely, I can not meal plan to save my life. I have no idea how much I spend a week, as I tend to buy extra some weeks and some meals I freeze half down for another day, so some weeks I just buy the basics.